Here is the deal with a Wordpress template. My first successful web business was selling a product called Adwords Back Now. At that time which was many years ago, I was determined to make money on the web and I didn’t want to spend any money on what I believed to be foolish spending such as web design. I came across a website called Wicked WordPress Themes and my eyes were open to a whole new world of money saving web development. Before I proceed, let me share with you that I have literally tried out HUNDREDS of templates for my Wordpress websites. By far the EASIEST, most search engine and marketing friendly template created for NOVICES is the below product called Socrates.
Practically Builds and Uploads itself for You! Back then, you could actually get a no strings attached website template for use with WP. The only thing that was required is that whomever uses the theme must leave the developer’s website link in the CSS code. Yeah, most of you don’t even know what that means do you? I digress. Some of these developers were smart enough to code the template in a way that IF someone tried to go into the template code and remove any links (footer, header etc) would suffer an disfunctional website. The better coders would make sure we couldn’t even access the wordpress login page! This meant that if you used Blue Host which is the top web platform for small business, you had to unistall the simple script and reinstall the whole thing. Website destroyed, this certainly taught many of us who dared challenge this sort of deep linking to behave! Yes, I tried this on many occasions because when I was developing my websites using these free themes, I valued the footer link which is important for SEO no matter what these clown SEO companies or Google Forum employees tell you. Keep in mind that even Google Forum employees (they are actually volunteers) have no reason to tell you the truth. The reason is most people who go to the SEO Forums are Affiliate Marketers as are the Google volunteers and are competing in the same market. I am not saying that these folks are always misleading those who need their help, what I am saying is that they really have reason to help their competitors overthrow their (Google volunteer’s) search engine position. I am a WordPress SEO Expert and having read many comments in these forums, I can tell you that most of those people are operating using old information OR passing on bad information that was passed on to them. The #1 Google Guru, Matt Cutts certainly knows what he is talking about, however, I have watched enough Matt Cutts videos to understand he will answer the same question by different webmasters in various locations in DIFFERENT WAYS! Yeah, if that sound confusing, it it because it is my friend. This isn’t to defame Matt at all but is meant to only point out this fact; You have got to take a little bit of information from various sources and do
these three things: TEST-TEST-TEST! Anyway, back to the subject matter at hand. The business model for free wordpress templates has changed because there were millions of downloaded templates and those templates were so great that the developers weren’t making any real money trying to upsell users to their premium wordpress templates. Today, you will be hard pressed to find a descent free template without affiliate ads all over the template. Developers now will leave the ads on these themes and the way to get the ads removed is usually to upgrade to their premium themes. Very smart if I do say so myself and what is really good about this business model is that the free templates must be more lucrative than premium services because if someone upgrades, the ads may go away never to be seen by millions of website visitors! I am no longer a believer in free themes because there is a service available now made by web marketers for web marketers called Socrates Themes. I am telling you this because far from being some IDIOT who repeats what they heard and not what they have personally experienced, Socrates has an ease of use (1 click) and set up that a child could figure out. They also have very understandable video tutorials, help forums and support that is well worth the paltry $47.00 you will pay for a theme. This is HUGE because 99% of the free themes and templates from developers are not designed with the web marketer in mind, only bloggers who want to have a website and write about their favorite topic. Click on the above link and start to take your business more seriously folks. I have literally THOUSANDS of free resources which I use and WILL NOT PAY for! However, when it comes to Hosting, Domain and Themes, I pay and only a STUPID IDIOT would expect to make serious money and not.
Practically Builds and Uploads itself for You!